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School and public libraries can play a fundamental and essential role in helping teens prepare for and move successfully into adulthood. Healthy adolescent development requires creating opportunities for teens to engage in year-round high-quality formal and informal learning experiences. While many public libraries ramp up teen services in the summer, or for special programs such as Teen Read Week™ and Teen Tech Week™, many do not provide intentional and sustained year-round teen programs and services. All teens have the capacity to learn, grow, and develop into knowledgeable, caring, and contributing adults, but to do this they must have access to the very best services and programs that school and public libraries can offer all year long. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Welcome to Research Roundup. The purpose of this recurring column is to make the vast amount of research related to youth and families accessible to you. To match the theme of the fall issue, this column focuses on yearround teen services by examining current articles that share opportunities to mentor teens and support their leadership development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article talks about the services of Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh (CLP) to teenagers. It looks at CLP's Teenspace which offers areas where teens are encouraged to explore and engage with CLP's materials and help in their development as leaders. CLP's afterschool programs and workshops for teens are discussed. The mentoring provided by CLP's Labs Mentors to teens is also noted.

The article discusses about eliminating fees and overdue fines in public libraries to encourage teenagers access library resources. It looks at topics including the benefits of eliminating fines on children's and juvenile library materials, the barriers posed by the fines on low-income teens' access to libraries, and the revenue generated by the fines for libraries.

The article focuses on the findings of a study funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) which examined the technology use practices of teenagers, their social searching practices, and their use and nonuse of public and school libraries in the U.S. Topics discusses include perceptions of libraries and motivations for library use, such as social interaction and leisure opportunities and how to increase and improve the use and perceptions of school and public libraries.